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by imperio59 802 days ago
Morals is the code of conduct which a certain group adheres to in principle, without those rules having the force of law.

Ethics is about your own conduct or the conduct of a group and whether that conduct leads to survival or improvement for yourself and others.

Justice is when a larger group sets some rules (usually laws) because it believes those rules are beneficial to the group. When a member of that larger group fails to follow these rules set by the group, the group comes down on them to force them to apply the rules set out or to punish them for not applying these rules.

Morals is rules that can be enforced or not, ethics is about doing the "right thing", justice is about enforcing the laws set out by a larger group (like a city or state or country etc)